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"I have been invited to “The Fight against Russia’s war and the authoritarian regime,” a conference organized by Radical Democracy Network, a broad coalition of Russian dissidents and antiwar activists. The organizers make it clear that this is no ordinary gathering. Flyers inform attendees that we are not allowed to publicize anything about today’s event for security reasons. A five-day blackout is imposed on all media articles. It’s about preventing Russian intelligence from tracking and mapping the guests’ activity — but also to stay under the radar of the Danish police. The guests are often treated with suspicion by Western security services.
This understandable concern also reminds the other participants of the duress under which the Russian activists live. Two of today’s featured speakers are introduced with a reminder not to film or mention any names, as it might jeopardize their networks in Russia. Many Russians present already appear on their government’s list of “extremists who are a threat to national security.”
“This event is not a public seminar, but an attempt to get the right people in the same room. I think we have accomplished this,” says Bjarke Friborg from the Danish Association of Masters and PhDs. Friborg’s labor union has helped organize the event through the newly established Eastern Europe Network, while their colleagues from the IT labor union (PROSA) have agreed to host the event. The largest labor union in Denmark, 3F, and the Danish Journalists’ Association have cosponsored travel expenses.
The Russians have reached Copenhagen from across Europe, where they have been living since 2022. Marina Simakova lives in a former Soviet republic, and Mikhail Lobanov in France, while Denis Leven has come from Berlin. Most haven’t seen their country in at least four years, and live a life of uncertainty and exile."
https://jacobin.com/2026/02/russia-ukraine-putin-antiwar-opposition/
It is important to support human rights in the Global South like Palestine and Venezuela.
The US and Western Europe are wealthy because of imperialism and colonialism.
The western world is privileged unlike the Global South.
#antiimperialism
#anticolonialism
#antiwar
#freepalestine
#freevenezuela
Freedom News: **Filton acquittals: The start of a sea change**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/02/05/filton-acquittals-the-start-of-a-sea-change/
The public is clearly uncomfortable with jailing peaceniks for trying to stop weapons supplies to a genocidal regime ~ Andy Meinke ~ Woolwich Crown…
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How Capitalism Creates War
📝 Plot:
Drawing on Aristophanes’ comedy, the film retells Lysistrata’s daring protest against war. United women withhold intimacy to pressure men into peace, revealing power, gender politics, and hypocrisy in a sharp, theatrical allegory that remains strikingly relevant.
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🎬 Die Sendung der Lysistrata [Lysistrata] (1961)
Subtitles available:
🇳🇱 Dutch
🇬🇧 English
🇪🇸 Spanish
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🎞 IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055431/
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Today in Labor History February 4, 1900: Jacques Prévert was born (1900-1977). Prevert was a poet, surrealist and libertarian socialist who glorified the spirit of rebellion & revolt.
Excerpt from “Song in the Blood”
There are great puddles of blood on the world
Where’s it going all this spilled blood
Murder’s blood. . . war’s blood. . .
Misery’s blood. . .
And the blood of men tortured in prisons. . .
The blood of children calmly tortured by their papa
And their mama. . .
And the blood of men whose heads bleed in
Padded cells
And the roofer’s blood
When the roofer slips and falls from the roof
The Minister of War:
I continue.
A destroyed hospital: ten, a hundred -
and I am modest -
can be rebuilt
And, the project adopted unanimously,
night has fallen,
the hospital was blown up with a few scraps of the neighborhood around.
Day breaks over the city
where the laughter dwindles, dissipates and disappears.
Everything becomes serious again.
Life, like the stock market, resumes its course
and general mobilization continues as normal.
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In honor of Black History Month, a short biography of Ben Fletcher (April 13, 1890 – 1949), Wobbly and revolutionary. Fletcher joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1912 and became secretary of the IWW District Council in 1913. He also co-founded the interracial Local 8 in 1913. Also in 1913, he led a successful strike of over 10,000 dockers. At that time, roughly one-third of the dockers on the Philadelphia waterfront were black. Another 33% were Irish. And about 33% were Polish and Lithuanian. Prior to the IWW organizing drive, the employers routinely pitted black workers against white, and Polish against Irish. The IWW was one of the only unions of the era that organized workers into the same locals, regardless of race or ethnicity. And its main leader in Philadelphia was an African American, Ben Fletcher.
By 1916, thanks in large part to Fletcher’s organizing skill, all but two of Philadelphia’s docks were controlled by the IWW. And the IWW maintained control of the Philly waterfront for about a decade. After the 1913 strike, Fletcher travelled up and down the east coast organizing dockers. However, he was nearly lynched in Norfolk, Virginia in 1917. At that time, roughly 10% of the IWW’s 1 million members were African American. Most had been rejected from other unions because of their skin color. In 1918, the state arrested him for treason, sentencing him to ten years, for the crime of organizing workers during wartime. He served three years. Fletcher supposedly said to Big Bill Haywood after the trial that the judge had been using “very ungrammatical language. . . His sentences are much too long.”
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Today in Labor History February 4, 1869: Labor leader and Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) co-founder William D. "Big Bill" Haywood was born. Haywood started mining at age nine. He became secretary-treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in 1900 and co-founded the IWW in 1905. He was a WFM organizer during the Colorado Labor Wars (1903-1904), in which 33 miners were killed.
At the IWW’s first convention (1905), he said, “We are here to confederate the workers of this country into a working-class movement that shall have for its purpose the emancipation of the working-class from the slave bondage of capitalism. The aims and objects of this organization shall be to put the working-class in possession of the economic power, the means of life, in control of the machinery of production and distribution, without regard to capitalist masters.” With the IWW, he came up with the propaganda ploy of sending workers’ kids out of town, for their own safety, during the Lawrence Textile Strike (1912), leading to a media backlash against the mill owners and the ultimate victory for the workers.
In 1907, he was falsely charged with the bombing murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg, but was acquitted with the counsel of Clarence Darrow. The WFM dismissed him in 1918 because of his radicalism. That same year, the Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (future first commissioner of Major League Baseball) convicted him of violating the Alien and Sedition acts during the first Red Scare for his antiwar activism. They sentenced him to 20 years in prison. However, he jumped bail and fled to the Soviet Union, where he died in 1928 from heart failure and alcoholism. His ashes were split between the Kremlin Wall Mausoleum and the Haymarket Martyrs Monument in Chicago.
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Dockworkers in Mediterranean Ports Announce Coordinated Action Against War
Italian city says no to warships and weapons for Israel Europe’s Palestine solidarity movement strengthens call to boycott Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva Ana Vračar, via People's Dispatch. Workers in more than 20 Mediterranean ports are preparing for an international day of action on February 6…
Free Palestine!
Today in Labor History January 31, 1971: For the second time in six months, rioting broke out during an anti-war protest in East Los Angeles. Police fired into the crowd, killing one protester. The anti-war demonstrations were organized by the Chicano Moratorium. Chicanos were dying at a higher rate during the Vietnam War than white Americans. During the August 29, 1970 protests, police killed three people, including Journalist and Civil Rights activist Ruben Salazar. Oscar Zeta Acosta portrayed Salazar in his 1973 novel, “The Revolt of the Cockroach People.” Hunter S. Thompson portrayed Acosta as his “Samoan attorney” in “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” Salazar was the first Mexican journalist for a mainstream newspaper (L.A. Times) to write about the Chicano community. He also worked as the Times’ bureau chief in Mexico City and covered both the Tlatelolco Massacre and the U.S. occupation of the Dominican Republic, both in 1965. Because of his outspoken support for the Chicano movement, and his criticism of racism and police abuse against the Chicano community, he was a target of FBI surveillance. Many believe his death was an assassination.
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The US government currently allows genocide in Palestine and violent imperialism in Venezuela.
End the suffering of innocent civilians in the Global South especially in Palestine.
📝 Plot:
During the Algerian War, a young French conscript experiences the brutal reality of military service far from official discourse. Daily routines, fear and moral confusion replace patriotic ideals as violence escalates and authority becomes increasingly oppressive. Stripped of heroism, the film delivers a stark and uncompromising anti-war statement, exposing the psychological damage inflicted on ordinary soldiers caught in a colonial conflict.
🎬 R.A.S. (1973)
Subtitles available:
🇬🇧 English
🇫🇷 French
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🎞 IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070586/
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#Drama
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#AlgerianWar
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